9-letter words containing h, o, s, t, c
- monostich — a poem or epigram consisting of a single metrical line.
- moschatel — a small plant, Adoxa moschatellina, having greenish or yellowish flowers with a musky odor.
- moustache — the hair growing on the upper lip.
- mustachio — a mustache.
- octastich — a stanza or piece of poetic writing that contains eight lines
- orchestic — relating to dance
- orchestra — a group of performers on various musical instruments, including especially stringed instruments of the viol class, clarinets and flutes, cornets and trombones, drums, and cymbals, for playing music, as symphonies, operas, popular music, or other compositions.
- orchestre — Obsolete form of orchestra.
- orchidist — an orchid grower
- orthotics — Also, orthosis. a device or support, especially for the foot, used to relieve or correct an orthopedic problem.
- ostriches — Plural form of ostrich.
- outscheme — to outdo in scheming
- outsearch — to go or look through (a place, area, etc.) carefully in order to find something missing or lost: They searched the woods for the missing child. I searched the desk for the letter.
- pack shot — (in television advertising) a close-up of the product being advertised, usually so that the viewer can register its logo and packaging
- phonetics — (in Chinese writing) a written element that represents a sound and is used in combination with a radical to form a character.
- photonics — the study and technology of the use of light for the transmission of information.
- photoscan — to study the distribution of a radioactive isotope or radiopaque dye in (a body organ or part) through the use of x-rays.
- pistachio — the nut of a Eurasian tree, Pistacia vera, of the cashew family, containing an edible, greenish kernel.
- postcrash — of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a crash
- psych out — to intimidate or frighten psychologically, or make nervous (often followed by out): to psych out the competition.
- psych-out — an act or instance of psyching out.
- psychotic — Psychiatry. characterized by or afflicted with psychosis. Synonyms: (in nontechnical usage) insane, psychopathic, lunatic, mentally ill; mad, disturbed, deranged, demented, non compos mentis. Antonyms: sane; compos mentis, clearheaded, lucid.
- rhotacism — Historical Linguistics. a change of a speech sound, especially (s), to (r), as in the change from Old Latin lases to Latin lares.
- rochester — John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of, 1647–80, English poet and courtier.
- rockshaft — an oscillating shaft.
- roughcast — Also called spatter dash. an exterior wall finish composed of mortar and fine pebbles mixed together and dashed against the wall. Compare pebble dash.
- sackcloth — sacking.
- sailcloth — any of various fabrics, as of cotton, nylon, or Dacron, for boat sails or tents.
- schistose — of, resembling, or in the form of schist.
- scholiast — an ancient commentator on the classics.
- sciophyte — any plant that grows best in the shade
- scotching — scutch (defs 2, 4).
- scotchman — Sometimes Offensive. Scotsman.
- scotophil — living and flourishing in darkness.
- scouthery — scorching
- scouthood — (sometimes initial capital letter) the state of being a scout, especially a Boy Scout or a Girl Scout.
- scutcheon — escutcheon.
- sheepcote — a pen or covered enclosure for sheep.
- sheetrock — a trademark name for plasterboard or drywall, composed of gypsum enclosed by heavy sheets of paper and used for constructing interior walls and ceilings
- shopcraft — any of various skilled trades involving maintenance or repair work, as metalworking or boilermaking, especially in the railroad industry.
- short con — any simple confidence game involving a relatively small amount of money.
- short cut — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- short-cut — to cause to be shortened by the use of a shortcut.
- shortcake — a cake made with a relatively large amount of butter or other shortening.
- slo pitch — slow pitch
- slo-pitch — a type of softball with ten players per side and in which each pitch must travel in an arc from three to ten feet high.
- sociopath — a person with a psychopathic personality whose behavior is antisocial, often criminal, and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility or social conscience.
- softbench — An IPSE from Hewlett-Packard.
- soothlich — truly
- sophistic — of the nature of sophistry; fallacious.